Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (213 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The goal of all of this is that the project is able to detect if an
> > election or vote is valid,
> > by defining that the vote needs for example a participation of more then
> > 60% of 'active'
> > members.
>
> Never heard of an election being invalidated due to less than X
> percentage of than those eligible to vote. Those who vote are the basis
> of the calculation. Show me a democratic election where this above
> method as mentioned was applied.

Requiring a quorum be present before voting is standard practice for
most organizations / bodies.

quorum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum

If opensuse ever forms a entity, I'm sure the bylaws will require a
quorum of potential voters participate for a vote to be valid.  Hard
to imagine it any other way.

Greg
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